Twitter Product Lead Confirms Bitcoin Lightning Beta Test
Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour today appeared to confirm rumors circulating this week that the company would soon launch a Bitcoin Lightning tipping service.Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour today appeared to confirm rumors circulating this week that the company would soon launch a Bitcoin Lightning tipping service. On the popular social application, Beykpour quote tweeted a leaked image of a beta interface for the planned service from the mobile developer Alessandro Paluzzi. The rumored test was subsequently reported by The Block and MacRumors prior to Beykpour’s tweet, though no....
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PRESS RELEASE. Metaverse Project Genso is thrilled to announce the details regarding the Closed Beta Test.
Details are as follows
■ Closed Beta Test Period:
Starts: July 28, 2022 12:00 -（UTC+8）
Ends: TBA
■ How to participate in the Closed Beta Test:
・All players who have Closed Alpha / Beta Testing Tickets will be able to participate in the test.
(The same NFT ticket used to enter the Closed Alpha can be used in the Closed Beta Test.)
・Log in to the Beta test....
Twitter is now testing the ability to tip users in Bitcoin through Jack Maller’s lightning network app Strike.
The latest software release, named lnd 0.15 beta (v0.15-beta), aims to empower developers to create solutions for more use cases by leveraging the Bitcoin network’s capabilities. Lightning Labs, a developer of the Bitcoin (BTC) Lightning Network (LN), released a beta version of the Lightning Network Daemon (lnd) — a complete implementation of the LN node — with added support to the latest protocol upgrades including Taproot and Musig2 among other improvements.lnd is a software component that handles various aspects within the LN including managing a database, generating payment invoices....
Social network Twitter could be closer than it has led on to integrate the Bitcoin lightning network for micropayments. Per a report by news website MacRumors, the platform is currently testing it for the operating system iOS Beta. The purpose of the integration is to enable a new payment option for users to reward content […]
Readers may remember our coverage of a Roger Ver interview from a few days ago where the veteran Bitcoiner and entrepreneur told Bitcoin Uncensored that Lightning Network was still untested and could take a long time to get off the ground. At the time, he was right. But this morning CCN can report that a successful test, using Bitcoin testnet coins, has been conducted by developers at Blockstream. In the test, the developers used an ASCII cat picture as a demo product. The developer below can be seen manipulating a combination of bitcoind and lightningd, the Bitcoin daemon and Lightning....